By esther-emmanuel on Skatehive
After a fairly disappointing third season, I wasn't too optimistic to watch the fourth season recently released. Also, I'd not been able to read the next book in the series to keep up with its adaptation. Since the third season was a wide deviation from the book, I guess Chris Van Dusen and Shonda Rhimes are determined to spin their version of Julia Quinn's regency romance. Then I saw online that this season's rating is a bit high and it's at the top of Netflix’s streaming charts. That got my attention. I can say that Bridgerton Season 4 based on the Julia Quinn's book, An Offer from a Gentleman, is fascinatingly different from the previous seasons and thus deserves the high rating. In this season, we are treated to a love story that is similar to the Cinderella fairy tale. It's about Sophie Baek (Yerin Ha), the illegitimate daughter of the Earl of Penwood and his maid. Her mother passed away and her father remarries, introducing Sophie to his new wife, Araminta (Katie Leung), as his w